I'd love to see similar detail in reconstructions of Classical Athenian gymnasia. (Your great-great-great-....great-great-grand-pappy's gym.)

Obviously the Greek gymnasiums were more general educational institutions. Nonetheless, their level of physical culture was quite high.

And, given the Greek influence on Galen, it'd be interesting to see what exercises they did. Presumably you could pull references from Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic texts - literary, political and medical.

Anyone have any data on this? (And I don't mean the recent trireme studies.) I suspect there's a great deal written on their sport in general, but not on their training regimes.

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134 year old gym discovered in Illinois

The Hegeler Carus mansion (LaSalle, Illinois) includes an original gym built in the year 1876. It was basically untouched throughout the 20th century and still contains a great deal of antique exercise equipment (climbing poles, "Roman rings", Indian clubs etc.)